An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Caricature is rough truth.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove plough,All bounteous as she is fair, we think of thoseWho blew the breath of life into her frame:Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three:Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her freeFrom ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
God has a big eraser.
Billy Zeoli
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage
You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary
Major Kira Nerys
The thing that goes the farthest
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Your flag and my flag,
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Al Neuharth
Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.
Holtei
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Evander Holyfield
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.
Julie Holz
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Jenny Holzer
There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Alexander DouglasHome
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
Henry Home
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
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